Trading journal
The trading journal that fills itself, and tells you where you lose.
Your positions arrive straight from MetaTrader, cTrader, Rithmic or your crypto exchange. Kara sorts them by hour, instrument, setup and streak, and spots the habits that cost you.
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Animated screens, sample data
A journal you have to fill in always ends up abandoned.
Exporting a CSV on Sunday night, copying entries, finding the chart screenshot: after three weeks the journal has a gap, and a journal with gaps no longer tells you anything reliable.
Kara reads your accounts at your broker or platform. Every position arrives on its own, with its stop, its target, its fees, and what it went through along the way: floating gain and drawdown, MAE and MFE. You only add what the machine cannot know: a tag, a note, a screenshot.
What the tool does
Everything you need, nothing to reopen elsewhere.
Automatic import
MetaTrader 4 and 5, cTrader, Rithmic and more than 100 crypto exchanges. No export, no manual entry: a position cannot be edited by hand.
All-Data account
All your accounts combined, archived and demo included. Each trade is measured within its own account, and a position copied to five accounts counts once.
Metrics that answer a question
Profit factor, expectancy per trade, exit efficiency, share of your top five trades, streaks, actual versus intended RR, Sharpe, Sortino, Calmar.
Where and when you win
Gains calendar, day-and-hour heatmap, performance by symbol, session and strategy tag, duration × result.
Psychological biases
Eleven biases spotted in the real sequence of your trades (revenge trading, post-loss escalation, winners cut too early…), with a hygiene score out of 100.
PDF report and CSV export
A performance report for the chosen period, and the full export of your positions, in R and in currency.
How it works
From connection to first result.
- 01
Link an account
MetaTrader with login and server, cTrader through its official authorisation, Rithmic with your user ID, or a read-only crypto API key.
- 02
History comes in
Past and open positions arrive in the journal, with their fees and floating extremes.
- 03
Tag what matters
A setup tag, a note, a screenshot: up to 20 tags and 5 images per position.
- 04
Read your biases
From 10 trades, Kara spots what repeats and puts a cost on it, in R, with your own numbers.
What Kara does differently
- Your trades cannot be typed in. They come straight from your accounts: that is what makes your statistics, your rank and your performance card verifiable.
- Biases are measured against your habits, not generic thresholds: your usual re-entry delay, your average loss, your median size.
- The journal sees the market. The trade you review shows on the order-flow chart where you took it, with the footprint of that moment.
- The same software executes. Terminal, copier and risk simulator read the same accounts as the journal.
- Platforms
- MetaTrader 4 and 5, cTrader, Rithmic (CME futures) and more than 100 crypto exchanges including Binance and Bybit. Windows, Linux and web app.
- Plans
- The journal and automatic import are in all three plans. Advanced metrics, heatmaps and the risk simulator are in the Journal (€14.99/month) and Complete (€19.99/month) plans. 14-day trial, no card.
Frequently asked questions
What people ask before signing up.
Do I need to export my trades as CSV?
No. Kara reads your accounts directly at your broker or platform: positions arrive on their own, including those already closed.
Which platforms are supported?
MetaTrader 4 and 5, cTrader, Rithmic for CME futures, and more than 100 crypto exchanges through their API key. For a crypto key, read-only is enough.
Can I combine several accounts?
Yes. The All-Data account combines all your accounts, archived and demo included. Each trade is measured within its account, and a position copied to several accounts counts once.
Can my data be edited?
No: a position can be neither typed in nor edited by hand. You only add tags, notes and images.
How many trades does bias detection need?
Ten closed trades are enough for bias detection; the journal's Monte Carlo simulation needs thirty.
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Connect an account. Look at what it shows. Decide after.
An e-mail address to create the account, your broker credentials for the first connection. Nothing else: no card, no sales call.
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